Effective January 30, 2011, the
mission “GERM Books & Gallery” is terminated.
Your humble proprietor -- the spy who loved you --
leaves you now for assignments far less glamorous yet
equally vital to our national interests. (Federal
expenditures run rampant, and yet there’s no budget for
good old-fashioned psy ops?)
We, the store that is, leave in the knowledge that you
are far better for having known us (aren’t you? of
course you are!), and we thank you for your six years of
camaraderie.
If GERM had died with our beloved founder Jennifer in
that dark Spring of 2007, our story would be sad and
little more. But we persevered, transmuting grief and
forging a cultural institution that left its mark, not
only on Philadelphia, but the world. Our event series
became legendary, as suppressed ideas rose to the
surface with varying degrees of security risk. We hosted
the famous, the infamous and the “prudently
unadvertised.” I seem to recall some great music and a
craft group, as well!
“Mutate or Die!” we warned. Today, we die.
Today, we “pass on...”
“And infect history.”
David E. Williams
Earthly Proprietor
GERM BOOKS AND GALLERY
(with help from W.D. Snodgrass)
During its six-year existence, GERM hosted a diverse selection of
international presenters from literature, politics and the arts:
Adam Parfrey, Boyd Rice, Robert N. Taylor
and Nicholas Tesluk of Changes, Lon Milo DuQuette, Peter Sotos, George Petros, David M.
Jacobs, Peter Moon, Steven Blush, Judith Schaechter, Jim Knipfel, Richard Dolan, the Church of Satan, the Mutual UFO Network,
the Tesla Science Foundation and the
International Raelian Movement.
And, yes, we did once have an anti-gravity demonstration. And,
yes, it worked.
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